r/technology 29d ago

Social Media Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent — even in a Nintendo context

https://www.theverge.com/news/626139/reddit-luigi-mangione-automod-tool
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u/prismatic_snail 29d ago

Interesting. No notifications, but I see a disappeared comment.

Guys don't use Latin. I dunno the ins and outs of UTF8, but if I had to guess all the characters of a language are stored together, with all Latin characters sharing a block (German, Spanish, etc). I use Greek, and auto detection doesn't work even for identical characters:

ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ αβγδεζηθικλμνοπρστφχψω

Or just the similar versions:

Αα Β Ε Η Ιι Κκ Ι Μ Νη Οο Ρρ Τ υ ν ω Χχ Υ Ζ

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u/erevos33 29d ago

Can we make it all Greek for instance?

Λουίτζι ?

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u/Background_Salt8760 29d ago

I_ I_I I G I

There’s always symbols

Funk Fact: Using symbols in Passwords makes them infinitely harder to crack.

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u/JMEEKER86 29d ago

Well of course, it's simply the h4x0r code that you don't hack people who are l337.

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u/Background_Salt8760 29d ago

It’s just bad manners IMO

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u/twoisnumberone 29d ago

Alright; I snickered.